Is this the much touted and oft repeated "poribartan" that Bengal's stormy petrel and incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee promised..........
75 year old Anowar Hussain a long term resident of Kolkata's Park Circus locality lost his battle for life in the dark; forbidding; desultory and dingy corridors of a state government run hospital on the fateful morning of June 9; 2016 owing to his family members pronounced inability to shell out the demanded amount of Rs.200/-...........
A grieving and disconsolate Sayeeda (the deceased's daughter) tearfully alludes to the sordid fact that her father who was admitted to the said hospital's out patient department (OPD) in the wee hours of June 9 owing to the accumulation and other liquid agents in his abdominal area.......
Doctors manning the OPD advised the family to immediately shift the wailing and somewhat incoherent Hussain to the hospital's "emergency" department so that a life sustaining surgical procedure could be duly performed on him in order to drain out the life threatening liquids that had inundated his abdominal and adjoining regions..........
Fearing for the life of their beloved "Abbu"; the perturbed and hassled family members laid him on a wheelchair and pushed the same towards the emergency department only to be abruptly accosted a few hundred metres short of their intended destination by a ward boy who demanded the proverbial pound of flesh in the form of Rs. 200/- in order to allot him a bed in the said department.........
Dismayed and distressed by the "Group D" staffers utter disdain and callousness Hussain's family members pleaded with him (with folded hands) to accept the Rs. 150/- that they had with them at present and promised to make available the remaining Rs. 50/- within two hours or so after Hussain was allotted the much desired and sought after bed in the emergency department........
Despite Hussain's pitiful and heart rending moans of acute pain and agony the demonic ward boy stuck to his guns and kept parroting his incessant demand for the pithy amount as if the same was his divine right and officially ordained gratification........
In the meanwhile oblivious of the continual wranglings going on around him the grievously ill 75 year old gent breathed his last owing to the apathy and indifference meted out towards impoverished and financially distressed souls like him by an officialese that thrives on buttressing their bank balances and personal wealth by surreptitiously pocketing such oft demanded illegal bribes from the hapless patients of ailing patients who have little choice other than giving in to their greed and avarice..........
Will Ms. Mamata Banerjee who claims to have made Bengal's government run hospital's a "haven of succour and comfort" for those lesser privileged Bengalis who cannot afford to shell out the exorbitant sums demanded by the numerous corporate hospitals dotting Kolkata's landscape issue the necessary orders to her faithful lackeys in the police department to file a murder case against the anonymous ward boy who has the blood of an ailing 75 year old on his hands or then will she dismiss the same as yet another conspiracy hatched to defame and demean her government by imaginary inimical and antagonistic forces who are out to besmirch her administration's supposedly "spotless and blemish free" sterling reputation.........
75 year old Anowar Hussain a long term resident of Kolkata's Park Circus locality lost his battle for life in the dark; forbidding; desultory and dingy corridors of a state government run hospital on the fateful morning of June 9; 2016 owing to his family members pronounced inability to shell out the demanded amount of Rs.200/-...........
A grieving and disconsolate Sayeeda (the deceased's daughter) tearfully alludes to the sordid fact that her father who was admitted to the said hospital's out patient department (OPD) in the wee hours of June 9 owing to the accumulation and other liquid agents in his abdominal area.......
Doctors manning the OPD advised the family to immediately shift the wailing and somewhat incoherent Hussain to the hospital's "emergency" department so that a life sustaining surgical procedure could be duly performed on him in order to drain out the life threatening liquids that had inundated his abdominal and adjoining regions..........
Fearing for the life of their beloved "Abbu"; the perturbed and hassled family members laid him on a wheelchair and pushed the same towards the emergency department only to be abruptly accosted a few hundred metres short of their intended destination by a ward boy who demanded the proverbial pound of flesh in the form of Rs. 200/- in order to allot him a bed in the said department.........
Dismayed and distressed by the "Group D" staffers utter disdain and callousness Hussain's family members pleaded with him (with folded hands) to accept the Rs. 150/- that they had with them at present and promised to make available the remaining Rs. 50/- within two hours or so after Hussain was allotted the much desired and sought after bed in the emergency department........
Despite Hussain's pitiful and heart rending moans of acute pain and agony the demonic ward boy stuck to his guns and kept parroting his incessant demand for the pithy amount as if the same was his divine right and officially ordained gratification........
In the meanwhile oblivious of the continual wranglings going on around him the grievously ill 75 year old gent breathed his last owing to the apathy and indifference meted out towards impoverished and financially distressed souls like him by an officialese that thrives on buttressing their bank balances and personal wealth by surreptitiously pocketing such oft demanded illegal bribes from the hapless patients of ailing patients who have little choice other than giving in to their greed and avarice..........
Will Ms. Mamata Banerjee who claims to have made Bengal's government run hospital's a "haven of succour and comfort" for those lesser privileged Bengalis who cannot afford to shell out the exorbitant sums demanded by the numerous corporate hospitals dotting Kolkata's landscape issue the necessary orders to her faithful lackeys in the police department to file a murder case against the anonymous ward boy who has the blood of an ailing 75 year old on his hands or then will she dismiss the same as yet another conspiracy hatched to defame and demean her government by imaginary inimical and antagonistic forces who are out to besmirch her administration's supposedly "spotless and blemish free" sterling reputation.........
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